As U.S. troop deaths decrease, violence hits Iraqi security forces

BAGHDAD 
A suicide bombing tore through a line of recruits waiting to enter a police academy as multiple blasts struck Iraqi security forces yesterday, killing at least 33 people and wounding dozens including four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi general.

The wave of violence in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul occurred as U.S. combat deaths for November dropped to one of the lowest monthly levels of the war